We may not be able to make you love reading, but value range analysis of c programs towards proving the absence of buffer overflow vulnerabilities will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how rea...

Information Systems (IS) sourcing continues to be a topic of great concern to both IS professionals and senior management. While a number of articles and books discuss the pros and cons of outsourcing, little has been written about companies that evaluate outsourcing but choose insourcing. Do companies actually achieve the cost savings proposed in the insourcing bid? This question prompted the ...

Personal Investigator (PI) was designed as a 3D computer game to help engage adolescents in psychotherapy. The game targets adolescents with mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and social skills problems. It was designed both for potential self-directed use online but also as a computer-mediated tool to aid therapeutic conversations between adolescents and therapists. PI employs ...

The Anatomy of Fluctuations in Book/Market Ratios We analyze trading activity accompanying equities' year-to-year switches from " growth " (low book-to-market ratios) to " value " (high book-to-market ratios), and vice versa. We find that a large book/market ratio increase, i.e., a shift from growth to value, is accompanied by a strongly negative small-trade order imbalance. Large-trade imbalan...

In Vector Quantization (VQ), minimization of Mean Square Error (MSE) between code book vectors and training vectors is a non-linear problem. Traditional LBG type of algorithms converge to a local minimum, which depends on the initial code book. While most of the efforts in VQ have been directed towards designing efficient search algorithms for code book, little has been done in evolving a proce...

Introduction Policies of forbearance to stockholders of insolvent firms by federal deposit guarantors represent a wealth transfer from federal deposit-insurance agencies, and ultimately from federal taxpayers, to the stockholders of the insured institutions. Kane (1985, 1986), Pyle (19861, and Thomson (1987) discuss theoretical determinants of the value of forbearances to stockholders of financ...

There is a trend in fashion product industry that firms launch new styles of their products more frequently. To investigate the optimal style launching strategy for a fashion firm, we propose a twoperiod pricing model for a fashion product firm. The firm sells a style of products in the first period as well as that he may utilize three different strategies in the second period, i.e., (i) the N-...